# Miquel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/miquel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,123 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,031 / 92 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | 7,179 |
| 1974 | 5 | 9,697 |
| 1975 | 6 | 8,667 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,798 |
| 1984 | 8 | 7,889 |
| 1986 | 5 | 12,137 |
| 1988 | 6 | 11,278 |
| 1991 | 5 | 14,613 |
| 1992 | 8 | 10,133 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,251 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,923 |
| 1997 | 5 | 15,326 |
| 1998 | 8 | 10,803 |
| 1999 | 9 | 10,058 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 23 | 4,380 |
| 2010 | 16 | 5,650 |
| 2011 | 20 | 4,772 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,384 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,107 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,929 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,952 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,596 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,957 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,383 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,015 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,882 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,432 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,370 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,462 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Miquel

- Miquel Baptista Gran, franciscan friar proclaimed blessed by the Catholic Church (1620-1684)
- Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet
- Miquel Nelom, Dutch footballer
- Miquel Brown, Canadian actress and singer
- Miquel Roca, Catalan politician and lawyer
- Miquel Calçada, Catalan journalist and communicating entrepreneur
- Miquel Parera, association football player
- Mikael Agricola, Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish (ca 1510-1557)
- Junípero Serra, Christian missionary
- Miguel Llobet, Catalan composer and guitarist (1878–1938)
- Miguel Lluch, French-born Spanish art director, screenwriter and film director (1922-2016)
- Miguel Farré Mallofré, Catalan pianist and chess player (1936-2021)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.